>>10977832The issue is, 1/12 isn't really viable for big vehicles, and 1/18 isn't viable without them. At 1/12 most vehicles are just too bloody big to be released at retail without MASSIVE concessions to quality/detail. Meanwhile, 1/18 figures are by themselves pretty mediocre next to their 1/12 counterparts by simple virtue of being too small to fit decent detail or articulation in. And without good figures to put in them, nobody's gonna buy the vehicles regardless of how good they are. Also even at 1/18, vehicles are massive space-hogs, and especially nowadays that the housing market is being fucked to death it's less practical to have a big setup for that kind of display. And without vehicles, most 1/18 figures are just patently inferior to their larger brethren.
That's changing a bit as of late- the Halo 1/18 stuff from Jazwares is IIRC pretty decent and JoyToy's 40K stuff is pretty much carrying the scale by itself- but the combination of 1/12 just being better to work with for the figures themselves and huge toys just not being viable thanks to the socio-economic hellscape we live in now has definitely done damage to the viability of such products.
I will say the crowdfunded stuff we've been getting for 1/12 vehicles has been pretty good; I don't have one myself but a friend of mine has the Classified HISS Tank and that thing is worth every penny it went for. Huge, lots of details and features, full interior, several figures and accessories etc.
